: Or, one might donate that huge pile of scraps to an art program at
: a local college, or sell it by weight to local crafters, or
: donate it to a local scout troop, or shred it to make filler
: material (chopped or milled glass fibers) for thickening resin.

: Now that would be a kind and considerate thing to do for others.

: Of course a good business manager would find ways to do more for
: the company.

: One idea would be to develop a market for those scraps. I have no
: idea what kind of products could be made from those scraps.
: Maybe someone could hold a contest and ask for ideas. There are
: all kinds of creative people out there who might have ideas.

: There are plenty of instances where products which were originally
: considered scraps became major industries. In the pertroleum
: industry, for example, excess natural gas may be captured, or
: just burned off at the oil well. In the early history of
: petroleum refining, people wanted oil for their lamps, so after
: that was removed, the distillers were left with a waste product
: called gasoline. Once someone figured out a way to run an
: internal-combustion engine with the stuff -- well, have you
: checked the price of gasoline today?

: It is a shame to trash excess fiberglass, though, because the stuff
: never decomposes.

: PGJ

Like most everything else in production, anything that slows the process becomes waste. Costs too much to do it any other way or you won't be competitive.

Luckily with fiberglass, while it never decomposes, it also never polutes, it's glass afterall, basically inert.

Btw, a favorite new gadget is a white out pen that applies what looks for all the world like the white out tapes that used to be used for typewriters (remember them? ). I'd bet somewhere someone had a giant warehouse full of that stuff hunting forever for a use for it :) Now it comes in a colorful plastic dispensor for when you make a mistake with a pen.

Bill H.